Technology-Enhanced MaterialsDAVID BRETT AND MARTA GONZÄLEZ-LLORET

Marta Kvaterchuk2nd English group

pp. 351-367

Change in process of finding and preparing material

Newspapers, magazines, leaflets, pens, scissors, glue, and a clean working sur face

The computer desktop, the Internet and a mouse

Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)

MOOs

email

chat rooms

communication tools

the authoring and publication of web

digital audio and video materials

software and

applications

CMC - computer-mediated com munication

asynchronous • email, bulletin boards

syn chronous • chat rooms, audio and video conferencing

if you start with teachers who have a very good approach to project-based curric ulum, they will be able to very easily integrate computers into that.

But if you start with computers without a good curriculum or a good pedagogy, the computer itself won't help very much.

TEACHERS AS AUTHORSCommercial enterprises (Yahoo Messenger, AOL, and MSN)• (Yahoo Messenger, AOL, and MSN)

Collaborative projects• ("Viaje al pasado: los aztecas")

Individual-teacher projects • (“En busca de Esmeraldas” by Gonzalez-

Lloret )

REVIEW OF RESOURCES: coursewareHot Potatoes

• "Hot Pot," as it is known to

aficionados, is certainly one of the

most user-friendly and widely

adopted authoring tools available.

• The types of exercises that can be

created include multiple-choice/

jumbled sentences, crosswords,

matching/ordering, and gap-fill.

GISMO

• (Guildhall Interactive Software for

Multimedia Online) authoring tool,

which is free of charge for

education institutions, permits the

creation of 12 different types of

browser-based exercises.

Exercises can be organized into

articulated learning modules.

REVIEW OF RESOURCES: coursewareCLIC

• This freeware program by Francesc

Busquets allows the develop ment of

multimedia activities for language

learning. Several different types of

activities can be created: puzzles,

associations, crosswords,

identification activities, exploration

activities, open-ended answers and

multiple choice.

MaxAuthor

• A feature of particular interest is

the great stress placed on the

inclusion of audio. Exercise

typologies offered include

listening dictation, pronunciation,

multiple choice, vocabulary

completion, and audio flashcards.

INTERNET TOOLS

CMC - computer-mediated communication • AOL• MSN• Yahoo

Blogs and wikies• Blogger• WordPress• Moveable

Type• Wikipedia

WebQuests

ASSOCIATIONS

CALICO - Computer Assisted Language

Instruction Consortium

IALLT - The International

Association for Language Learning

Technology

APACALL - The Asia-Pacific Association for

Computer-Assisted Language Learning

JOURNALSIn addition to articles

about technology and

language learning in

journals de voted to all

issues on language

teaching and learning,

there are a few journals

devoted to new

technologies and

language learning.

CALL – Computer Assisted

Language Learning Journal

System –applications

of educational technology

LL&T –Language Learning & Technology

THANK YOU!